VAD has improved food security and increased household incomes among the small holder farmers of kapelebyong district where we targeted 250 direct farmers for 2 years- funded by signpost international uk
Farmers of Okoboi community in Kapelebyong District NE region, harvested bags of maize, green gram as a result of being provided with improved seeds for plantationSome of the harvested cassava One of VAD project staff Liz Akannyo conducting a training in Agronomic best practices where we targeted 5 farmers group of 25 members each inclusion with 15 People With Disabilities. This was in Aturai village of Okoboi parish in Kapelebyong DistrictFarmers representatives were provided with Oxen and Ox-ploughs as part of Agricultural inputs to ease the cultivation of our targeted farmers hence improved production. Above are the pairs of Ox-ploughs providedTargeted farmers during a training in nutrition basics, vegetable growing and other related agricultural trainings; photo taken in KapelebyongA pair of Oxen/bulls provided to the targeted farmers of Kapelebyong; this is used to open up big land and carry out agriculture on a very piece of land to increase production which later increase household food production and incomes.
Thanks for helping in eradicating poverty among the small scale farmers in Uganda.
Thank you so much for your feed back James